Robert Reece
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Robert Reece was a British comic playwright and librettist active in the Victorian era. He wrote many successful musical burlesques, comic operas, farces and adaptations from the French, including the
Reece's The Forty Thieves, 1880
Poster for an 1886 production of Reece's Aladdin and the Forty Thieves
Henry James Byron
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Henry James Byron was a prolific English dramatist, as well as an editor, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor.
Robert Reece
…pieces between 1872 and 1884, among them the pantomimes Ali Baba (1872), Don Giovanni in Venice (1873), The Forty Thieves, (written with F. C. Burnand, H. J. Byron and W. S. Gilbert) (1878) and another version of the same story, with music by Meyer Lutz in 1880; and the burlesques Aladdin, (1881); Little Robin…
Byron in the 1870s
Poster for Byron's 1859–60 pantomime, Jack the Giant Killer
Our Boys, 1875